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Reliability tests for Doppler imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Y.C. Unruh*
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews Dept of Physics & Astronomy, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS

Abstract

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In recent years, Doppler imaging codes have been developed by a number of different groups and successfully applied to map the spot distribution on stellar surfaces. As more and more images are obtained we tend to see a pattern of high-latitude spots, particularly on RS CVn systems. These high-latitude spots were and still are greeted with scepticism as they are inferred from non-varying profile deformations. Here, I describe some of the problems of Doppler imaging and their likely impact on the resulting images.

Type
Session I: “Stellar Surface Mapping Techniques”
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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